Pampavana Garden
The Japanese-style garden at Munirabad — clipped, watered and deliberately unlike everything around it.
Open
9:00 am – 6:30 pm
Entry
₹10 entry
Best time to go
Late afternoon
Time to spend here
About 1 h
Crowds
Can get busy
At Munirabad, about 3 km from the Tungabhadra Dam. Busy on Sunday afternoons with local families; quiet on a weekday.
About this place
Pampavana is the garden the dam board laid out at Munirabad in a Japanese manner: raked gravel, water, arched bridges, clipped planting and stone lanterns, kept green in a district that is not. It is a strange and rather lovely thing to find three kilometres from the dam wall, and it is where local families go on a Sunday. It takes about an hour to walk properly. Pair it with the dam and the fountain and the whole thing becomes an afternoon and evening rather than a detour.
Good to know
- A small entry fee, collected at the gate.
- Best late in the afternoon, when the heat drops and the light gets long. There is little shade at midday.
- About 3 km from the dam wall — do the two together.
- It is a laid-out garden, not a wild one. Keep to the paths.
